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The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco

The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfigured discourses about Europe's Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton's In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said's model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of the strategies characteristic of colonial discourse: the mapping of the colonial space, specifically through the inscription of self and Other power relations, fueled up by a will to knowledge and control over new territories. It also attempts to read Wharton's narrative against Sara Mills' argument, which claims that it is gender rather than genre that is at the genesis of colonial heterogeneity.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hawwa Brill

The White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton's In Morocco

Hawwa , Volume 7 (1): 39 – Jan 1, 2009

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1569-2078
eISSN
1569-2086
DOI
10.1163/156920809X449535
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfigured discourses about Europe's Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton's In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said's model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of the strategies characteristic of colonial discourse: the mapping of the colonial space, specifically through the inscription of self and Other power relations, fueled up by a will to knowledge and control over new territories. It also attempts to read Wharton's narrative against Sara Mills' argument, which claims that it is gender rather than genre that is at the genesis of colonial heterogeneity.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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HawwaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: TRAVEL LITERATURE; COLONIAL SPACE; FEZ; GENDER; EDITH WHARTON; ORIENTALISM

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